Valve



1934- w. F.- MESINGER ET AL 1,971,013

' VALVE Filed Dec. 16, 19 30 7 //a f 23 M 3 flgvzm-ons,

ATTORNEYS.

rneniedAu z laa l 1,971,013 UNI'TED STATES PATENT OFFICE I I. 1,971,013 'I i VALVE William F. Mesinger and Harry J. Baker.

Indianapolis, Ind., assignors to Prest-O-Lltv; Company, Inc., a corporation of New York a Application December 16, 1930,. Serial No..502,822 7 C aims. (Cl. 251-134) Our invention relates to a valve assembly or plug 6 is adapted to be connected to a fluid supthe poppet type. ply pipe which may be connected to the threaded Our valve assembly is particularly suitable for opening 8. The quantity of fluid passing per use in priming internal combustion engines with unit of time to the valve chamber 2 is confold while they ar being started, but this valve control member or removable-disc lop which rests construct a single valve which ls adapted to be the bottom of the valve 4, to hold the valve on pressure, such as the light supply line, and A valve stem 14 is vattached to the valve 4 deliver to the intake manifold a quantity of and it extends through the upper end of the acetylene which may be regulated to suit each bore 13 to the outside of the valve body.' A 30 engine having a particular piston displacement. counter-bore 15 is formed about the central Therefore one of the objects of our invention bore 13. A valve stem packing 16 and a gland is to provide a means in the valve assembly for 17 fits into the counter-bore 15 about the valve obtaining the passage of a desired volume of stem 14. A plurality of set screws 18 extend gas per unit of ,time for a predetermined ditferinto the valve body 1. The inner ends of the ential of pressure in the inlet and discharge screws 18 engage the lower beveled side of a side of the valve. 4 circumferential groove 19 in the gland 17 and Another object of our invention 'is to conforce the gland toward the bottom of the in a. pipe line and then adjusted without dis- The circumferential groove 19 and set screws 90 Another object of our invention is to construct o p ov de m ns for ompress ng t al e a valve which is leak-proof and is adapted to stem packing and the other of which is to pro- 95 be easily assembled. vide a means for permitting the adjustment of An embodiment of our invention is shown in the valve Operat ng means, so hat the valve the accompanying drawing; in which, can be operated i'rom any direction.

Fig. I is a top plan view of the valve; The top of the valve stem gland 17 is pro-' 40 Fig. II is a vertical section taken in part on vided with a slot 20 which intersects the bore 106 the line II II in Fig; I; and g in the gland through which the valve stem 14 Fig/III is a vertical section of a modification pass s. A bellcrank lever 21 s p ed n of the valve. slot 20 on a pin 22 which extends across the slot.

body 1 1s made in one piece and it is provided along the valve body 1 and the other arm 24 5 therethrough. Acounter-bore 7, concentric with by the valve spring 12 and the inlet pressure prising the valve chamber 2, is screwed into In the modification of our invention disclosed the counter-bore 7 until the rim of the chamber in Fig. III, a cap 100 having a conical recess forces the valve seat disc 5a against the inner therein is placed on top of the valve spring 6 end of the counter-bore. The outer end of the 112. The valve 104 has a. pointed base which 120 acetylene which is supplied to the intake manitrolled by the size of the orifice 9 in a "ilow 35 1 supply the priming valve with acetylene d'rectly the correct flow of gas for anengine having a 70 he boie 13, is formed in the lower end of the acts upon the valve 4 and holds it against its fits in the apex of the recess with a space between the side walls of the valve base and the side wall of the recess. This construction equalizes any variation in pressure of the spring 112 at all points on the circumference of the cap and allows the valve to be seated with a uniform pressure at all other details of this modification are the same as those disclosed in Fig. 11, and they bear the same reference numerals with the addition of 100.

While we have described erence to its use as a priming valve,'it is to be understood that our invention is not limited to this particular use and that the details of the valve may be modified without departing from the scope of our invention as defined in the appended claims. a

We claim:

1. A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a longitudinal bore extending therethrough to provide a valve chamber, an inlet to said chamber and an outlet from said chainber, said bore having an enlarged counter-bore, a valve seat disc in said counter-bore, said disc having a bore therein to provide a valve seat,

our invention in refa valve cooperating with said seat, a plug se,

cured in said counter-bore, said plug having a cavity comprising the valve chamber and the inlet to said chamber, the rim of said plug being seated against said valve seat disc, and a spring compressed between said valve and a shoulder in said valve chamber.

2. A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a longitudinal bore extending there: through to provide a valve chamber, an inlet to and an outlet from said'chamber, said bore having an enlarged counter-bore, a valve seat disc in said counter-bore, said disc having a bore therein to provide a valve seat, a valve cooperating with said seat, a plug secured in said counter-bore, said plug having a cavity therein comprising the valve chamber and the-inlet to said chamber, the rim of said plug being seated against said valve seat disc, a second disc seated against a shoulder in said valve chamber, said.

second disc having a flow control orifice therein, and a spring compressed between said second disc and said valve.

3. A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a longitudinal bore extending therethrough to provide a valve chamber, an inlet to and an outlet from said chamber, a poppet valve in said chamber to control the flow of fluid therefrom, said valve having a single pointed base, a cap having a recess for holding and centering the point of said base on the axis of said bore, and a spring compressed between said cap and a shoulder in said valve chamber.

4. A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a longitudinal bore extending therethrough to provide a valve chamber, an inlet to and an outlet from said chamber, said bore 'having an enlarged counterbore, a valve seat in the inner end of said counter-bore, a valve cooperating with said seat, a plug secured in said counter-bore, said plug having a cavity therein comprising the valve chamber and the inlet to said chamber, a spring compressed between said valve and a shoulder in said chamber, a valve stem secured to said valve and extending upwardly through said longitudinal bore in said valve body, packing in said longitudinal bore points of its seat. The

plug secured in said counterbore around said stem, a valve stem gland around said stem, anannular shoulder on said gland, screws in saidvalve body adapted to engage any radius of said shoulder to force said gland against said packing and to secure said gland to .said valve body in any rotative position about said valve stem, and a lever mounted on said gland to actuate said valve stem.

5. A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a; longitudinal bore extending there- I through to provide a valve chamber, an inlet to and an outlet from said chamber, said bore having an enlarged counter-bore, a valve seat in the inner end of said counter-bore, a valve cooperating with said seat, a plug secured in said counter-bore, said plug having a cavity therein comprising the valve chamber and the inlet to .said chamber, a disc seated on an annular shoulder in said chamber, said disc having a flow control orifice therein, a spring in said valve chamber compressed between said valve and said disc, a. valve stem secured to said valve and extending upwardly through said longitudinal bore in said valve body, packing in said longitudinal bore around said stem, a valve stem gland around said stem, an annular shoulder. on said gland, screws in said valve body adapted to engage any-radius of said shoulder to force said gland against said packing and to secure said gland to said valve body in any rotative position about said valve stem, and a lever mounted on said gland to actuate said valve stem.

6. A valve, assembly comprising a valve body having a longitudinal bore extending therethrough to provide a fluid passage including a valve chamber, an outlet from said fluid passage, an inlet to said fluid passage, said bore having an enlarged counter-bore, a valve seat in the inner end of said enlarged counter-bore, a valve cooperating with said seat, a plug secured in said counter-bore, said plug having a cavity comprising the valve chamber and the inlet to said fluid passage, a spring for normally maintaining said valve on its seat, and a .fiow control member within said fluid passage adapted to secure a definite flow of fluid for a predetermined differential of pressure between the opposite sides of said member independent of said valve, said member having an orifice therein and being adapted to be interchanged with another member having, an orifice of a different size.

'7. A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a passage extending therethrough, said passage comprising a counterbore and having a lateral outlet in said body communicating through part of said passage with said counterbore; a valve seat disc in the bottom of said counterbore having a central aperture registering with the part of said passage between said outlet and saidcounterbore; a valve controlling said aperture and having a stem extending through said passage beyond the counterbore and projecting. from one end of said body; a and having a cavity provided with an inlet and an internal shoulder adjacent said inlet, the inner rim of said plug holding said disc in place; and a spring compressed between said valve and said internal shoulder.

WILLIAM F. MESINGER. HARRY J. BAKER.

3 CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION. Patent No. 1,971,01 3. 4 August 21, 1934.

WILLIAM F. MESINGER, ET AL.

Signed and s the above numbered "Prest-O-Li te Company, Inc. specified as The Preat-O-Lite rds of assignments in this office; and that e of the assignee in Leslie Frazer (Seal) Acting Cemmissioner of Patents. 

